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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 3d

God, It's Brutal Out Here: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/god-its-br...

Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 2d

Large Language Model's credibility stems from the credibility of humans spewing out pre-trained responses in much the same way, with not a little credibility. #litotes

Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 2d

While Kingston is famously home to some 17th and 18th century structures, it's really got a lot of 19th century in it, and I'd love to see a 19th century day with car banning, horses and carts, kids playing hoops in the streets etc, at least here in the Stockade (really old) part of Kingston.

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Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 2d

I have heard that bats eat spotted lanternflies! This may be true.

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Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 2d

Perse is never letting that wrap get out of her hands again!

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Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 3d

It's gotta be real good to beat The Incredible Journey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inc...

The Incredible Journey (film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday with drainage and grafitti!

Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 3d

Since the point is to get you to read the article, similar to how headlines are designed to, um, engage when you can only read the first half, thanks to it being cut off.

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Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 3d

It's like when headline writers use "Drop" to mean "present" or "reject", e.g. "X drops proposal"

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Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 5d

Large Language and the Jazz Kissingers remind you that it's a Bandcamp Friday!
largelanguage.bandcamp.com
thejazzkissingers.bandcamp.com

Large Language

So I'm a linguist. I'm a linguist living in New York City, in the middle of nowhere, on a Brooklyn street. It's kind of nice to live here, too. I have no idea what the language is like, what are its ...

largelanguage.bandcamp.com

Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 5d

Well, happy Bandcamp Friday!

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Jhh Löwengard @jhhl.bsky.social · 6d

Well, G W Bush declared a global war on terrorism, which both lacked jurisdiction and any kind of actual entity that a state could go to war with. But: flags were waved, war waged, wages paid. I' m not sure that war is over because there's no way to know what was actually being fought.